Jonathan Cowan

Jonathan Cowan is a co-founder of the Third Way organization, a Senate advocacy group.

Biographical Profile
According to his Third Way biographical profile:


 * In 2000, Mr. Cowan founded Americans for Gun Safety, and until July 2004 served as President of AGS. AGS became, in the words of the Washington Post, the "dominant" group on the gun safety side of the gun debate - carving out a centrist, bipartisan approach on a highly polarized issue.  Before founding AGS, Mr. Cowan was a Visiting Fellow at Harvard's Institute of Politics, teaching a course on youth and political advocacy.  In the late 1990s, Mr. Cowan served as Chief of Staff of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, managing a federal agency of 9,000 employees with a $27 billion annual budget.  Previously, he was Senior Advisor to the HUD Secretary and Acting Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs.  In 1992, he co-founded Lead...or Leave, which became the nation's leading Generation X advocacy group.  He was featured on the cover of U.S. News & World Report, in Time, on Nightline, 60 Minutes, the Today Show and in many other media outlet as a generational spokesperson. He also co-authored Revolution X, and has published op-eds in the New York Times, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times.